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Here's a ticket drivers would love to get from police.

The rankings came out this week showing which states are the healthiest, and Texas is on the lower third of the list. But we're healthier than most of the South!

An East Texas man tied this year's record for the longest consecutive bell-ringing streak in the Salvation Army's Red Kettle Campaign. Andre Thompson of Tyler joined fellow ringers, Salvation Army Maj. Marcelino "Butch" Soriano in San Diego, and James Brickson of Albert Lea, Minnesota in the record books, by ringing for more than one hundred consecutive hours.

The man making national news after being shot and killed while jogging on a street in Libya Thursday morning, was a teacher from Texas. Ronnie Smith was from Austin, and took a job teaching chemistry at the International School in Benghazi.

E-cigarettes are becoming more and more popular, and another East Texas Town may try to put a damper on that national trend. Nacogdoches is thinking about moving toward a ban on e-cigarettes, as more towns across our neck of the woods, and across the state and country, continue to research the effects of using them.  E-cigarettes create a vapor that is inhaled, and some call it "vaping."

Farming used to have a male-oriented stigma attached to it.  I grew up on a farm in rural Nebraska where my dad and grandpa raised corn, wheat, milo, cows, pigs, and chickens.  And there were many male farmers in that section of the world that did the same thing.  Sometimes women helped around the farm, but never did they run a farm of their own, in my experience.  Now that's changing. Do you know

Several people gathered in Nacogdoches Saturday for gun rights. Representatives from the group Open Carry Texas were at the rally, along with several other groups.  The rally was hosted by The Texas Sons of Liberty Riders.

We have another official holiday coming up on Monday, September 2, and for those of us not in the 24 hour day, 365 day work cycle, it means a well deserved day off courtesy of the "holiday makers".

He was supposed to be on our side, but who could have thought for one moment that a member of the United States Armed Forces would turn into a homicidal maniac against his own "brothers".

Watching the movie "Titanic" last night (not the 1953 version with Barbara Stanwyck, but the 1997 flick starring Kate Winslet), one my favorite scenes is when actor Billy Zane (Cal) realizes his money won't help him survive, so he cleverly grabs a child and secures a spot in a lifeboat.  Nice move!

There are plenty of new vehicles on the road, but the average age of cars, trucks, and SUV's is higher than you might think.  We're driving our cars longer. My 2009 SUV is almost paid off, and I'm planning to celebrate that soon and then drive it til the wheels fall off!  More and more people are choosing to have no car payment and are keeping their vehicles longer. What's the average age among th

George H.W. Bush has a new hairdo, and it is not likely what you think.  The former Prez, now 89 years old, has gone -- bald!